Featured Articles– August 2016 Archive (4)

“It’s like breathing,” we say to illustrate the ease of a particular task or the acquisition of a new skill that isn’t really difficult. From our initial entry into life, breathing is automatic, something we don’t prepare for or think about until we face a health crisis later in life or develop a respiratory condition that requires monitoring and medicating. We know that breath is requisite for life, but the benefits of conscious breathing transcend the physical to include…

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.” ~ Steve Maraboli

According to Tony Robbins, we have “Time Targets.” These are pockets of time in which we must organize our priorities in order to find fulfillment. However, the way our lives are structured, and the things to which we actually give our attention, can result in less than ideal scenarios in which we feel compelled to respond to the demands of technology, our enormous agendas,…

The Gospel of Thomas, used by followers of Jesus in the early centuries but rejected by the Church, was lost to the ages until a 1945 discovery of its full text, buried in a jar under the Egyptian sand for 1600 years. Told by Jesus to his disciple Didymos Judas Thomas, scholars consider this gospel one of Christianity’s great discoveries, some believing it may be older than any of the four New Testament gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Composed of a list of 114 sayings of Jesus,…